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NIKOLAY SIDORENKO

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

QA Lead with 20 years of experience managing test strategies, automation frameworks, and CI/CD
pipelines across diverse platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. Skilled in team leadership, risk
management, and integrating non-functional testing to enhance product quality and accelerate release
cycles.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Infrascale (SOS Online Backup) April 2010 – Present

QA Lead, QA Automation Engineer

• Developed and implemented a QA strategy across company products, reducing release time by up
to 40%
• Implemented continuous integration pipelines integrating automated tests to accelerate release
cycles and improve defect detection rates
• Designed and enforced coding standards for test automation scripts, enhancing maintainability and
reducing technical debt across the QA team
• Defined quality metrics and acceptance criteria in collaboration with product management to
ensure alignment with customer requirements
• Mentored junior QA engineers on automation frameworks and best practices, increasing team
productivity and skill levels
• Coordinated cross-departmental risk assessments to proactively mitigate potential quality issues
before release
• Adapted a centralized defect tracking system to align with company Scrum processes, streamlining
communication among product, development/QA, support, and operations teams and reducing
resolution time by 25%
• Conducted root cause analysis on recurring defects, driving process improvements that decreased
defect recurrence in subsequent releases
• Established a comprehensive test data management strategy to ensure consistent and reliable test
environments across multiple projects
• Orchestrated cross-functional workshops to identify and mitigate integration risks, improving end-
to-end system stability prior to deployment
• Implemented a modular test automation architecture to facilitate rapid adaptation to changing
product features and reduce script maintenance effort
 • Integrated security testing into the development and QA processes in collaboration with security
teams, enhancing early-stage vulnerability detection
• Analyzed test coverage gaps using QA design techniques to develop targeted test cases that
improved overall product reliability
• Directed root cause investigations for critical production incidents and coordinated corrective
actions to minimize downtime and enhance customer satisfaction
• Reduced QA costs by up to 40% by migrating QA pipelines to a dynamic structure based on GCP

Softline December 2009 – April 2010

Owner of the Company Testing Process

• Directed Testers Community operations to facilitate the collection and sharing of QA best practices
across all company projects and teams
• Maintained and extended a comprehensive knowledge base on testing methodologies and tools
• Delivered trainings, seminars, and presentations to enhance testing expertise among professionals
• Developed and maintained testing processes and standards for the company
• Provided consulting services and conducted software testing audits for all company projects
• Created standardized test documentation templates that enhanced clarity and consistency across
diverse company projects and teams
• Designed metrics dashboards to monitor testing efficiency and quality

Softline March 2006 – December 2009

QA Lead, QA Engineer

• Planned, organized, and maintained testing activities; estimated labor costs; executed functional
and UI testing; and reviewed technical documentation across diverse company projects with varying
subject areas
• Created comprehensive testing documentation - including test plans, test strategies, testing
programs and methodologies, test cases, non-functional testing specifications, and CTE - for
various company projects
• Developed and executed automated performance testing for multiple products, enhancing
reliability by up to 15%
• Developed and maintained automated functional tests, reducing pre-release testing time by 10-25%
• Planned and performed various types of testing for diverse projects, including installation,
deployment, security, configuration, and recovery testing
• Mentored junior testers in test design techniques, test execution, and defect analysis to increase
team productivity and test coverage
• Implemented advanced test data management solutions to simulate complex user scenarios,
increasing test accuracy
 • Led post-release root cause analysis sessions to identify systemic issues and implement process
improvements, reducing recurring defects by 35%
• Defined quality metrics in collaboration with product management, enabling data-driven decisions
that enhanced overall product reliability

EDUCATION

European University of Finance, Information Systems, Management and Business (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Master in Information Systems and Technology Management

CORE SKILLS

• Programming: Java, C#, C++, Python • CI/CD: TeamCity, Jenkins
• Cloud Platform: GCP, Azure, AWS • Tracking: Jira, Bugzilla, Mantis, OnTime
• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Terraform • AQA: WebDriver, TestStack, Selenoid,
• IDE: Visual Studio, ItelliJ IDEA, Rider, TestNG, Junit, NUnit
PyCharm • QA Strategy Development
• DB: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MSSQl, MySQL, • QA Automation
Mongo • Release Management
• OS: Linux, Windows • Issue Management
• Hypervisor: VMware, Hyper-V, KVM • Risk Analysis and Mitigation
• Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose • Testing Levels: unit, integration, API,
• Web Service: SOAPUI, Postman system
• Version Control: SVN, Mercurial, Git, • Testing Types: functional, UI, installation,
Bitbucket security, performance, deployment,
• Test-Cases: TestRail, TestLink configuration, regression, acceptance

CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Master (Scrum Guides)

LANGUAGES

Ukrainian (Native), English (Intermediate), Russian (Fluent)